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21H.447

Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2004

Topics

  • Introduction to Class and Requirements: What is “Fascism”?, What is “Nazism”?
  • Total War and Total (?) Defeat
  • Recovery, and Weimar Culture I: Art and the Avant-Garde (Visual Presentation)
  • Film: “The Blue Angel” (Die Blaue Engel) (1930, 107 minutes)
  • Countercurrents: Anti-Semitism, Völkisch Nationalism (and the Origins of the Nazi Party)
  • The Great Depression and the Polarization of Politics
  • The Nazi Seizure of Power and Gleichschaltung
  • The Racial State
  • The Rise of the SS State, and Everyday Life under Nazism
  • Outbreak of the Second World War
  • The Course of the War, and the Eastern Front
  • Meeting with Instructor: Review of “Der Brand” (Strategic Bombing)
  • “Zero Hour” and Denazification
  • Film: Germany Year Zero (1947, 78 minutes) or Somewhere in Berlin (Irgendwo in Berlin) (1946, DEFA), 79 minutes.

Readings

  • Fallada, Hans. Little Man, What Now? Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2009. ISBN: 9781933633640. ( Kleiner Mann, was nun? )
    Listed reading
  • Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power . Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1989. ISBN: 0140228780.
    Listed reading
  • Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz . New York, NY: Summit Books, 1986. ISBN: 9780671605414.
    Listed reading
  • Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men . Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt, 1993. ISBN: 3498005693.
    Listed reading
  • Fabri, Friedrich. “Bedarf Deutschland des Colonien?/Does Germany Need Colonies?” In Studies in German Thought and History . Edited and translated by E. C. M. Breuning, and M. E. Chamberlain. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998, pp. 2-177, 179, and 181. ISBN: 9780773483712.
    Listed reading
  • Jünger, Ernst. Storms of Steel . Translated by B. Creighton. New York, NY: Howard Fertig, 1975, pp. 300-319. ISBN: 0865273103. (excerpt)
    Listed reading
  • Remarque, Erich Maria. Chapter 4 in All Quiet on the Western Front . New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1987. ISBN: 9780449213940. (excerpt)
    Listed reading
  • Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reicht . Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780306809156. (excerpt)
    Listed reading
  • Nenno, Nancy. “Femininity, the Primitive, and Modern Urban Space: Josephine Baker in Berlin.” In Women in the Metropolis. Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture . Edited by Katharina Van Ankum. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997, pp. 145-161. ISBN: 9780520204652.
    Listed reading
  • Kershaw, Ian. The “Hitler Myth” . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780192802064.
    Listed reading
  • Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherlandt . New York, NY: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1988. ISBN: 9780312022563. (excerpt)
    Listed reading
  • Peukert, Detlev. “The Genesis of the Final Solution from the Spirit of Science.” In Nazism and German Society. Edited by David Crew. New York, NY: Routledge, 1994. ISBN: 9780415082402.
    Listed reading
  • Spielvogel, Jackson J. Hitler and Nazi Germany: a History . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN: 9780139759963.
    Listed reading
  • Fabri, Friedrich. Short excerpt from Does Germany Need Colonies?
    Listed reading
  • Fest. The Face of the Third Reich . pp. 1-14 (Hitler), 15-26.
    Listed reading
  • Kershaw. Hitler Myth . pp. 14-24.
    Listed reading
  • Discussion Berghaus, Gunter. “Girlkultur: Feminism, Americanism, and Popular Entertainment in Weimar Germany.” Journal of Design History (1988). Nenno, Nancy. “Feminity, the Primitive, and Modern Urban Space: Josephine Baker in Berlin.”
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 9 · TOPICS: Countercurrents: Anti-Semitism, Völkisch nationalism (and the Origins of the Nazi Party) · READINGS: Fest. The Face of the Third Reich . pp. 15-26. (Hitler)
    Reading assignment
  • Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power .
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 13 · TOPICS: The Nazi Seizure of Power and Gleichschaltung · READINGS: Fest. The Face of the Third Reich . pp. 27-38. (Hitler)
    Reading assignment
  • Film: Excerpts from Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will and Olympia
    Listed reading
  • The films of Leni Riefenstahl Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich . (Goebbels)
    Listed reading
  • Allen. Nazi Seizure of Power.
    Listed reading
  • Nuremberg Laws (September 1935)
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 18 · TOPICS: Outbreak of the Second World War · READINGS: Fest. pp. 62-67. (Hitler)
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 19 · TOPICS: The Course of the War, and the Eastern Front · READINGS: Begin reading Browning. Ordinary Men .
    Reading assignment
  • Film Excerpt from Die Ewige Jüde
    Listed reading
  • Report of Einsatzgruppe C (1941) Minutes of the Wannsee Conference (1942)
    Listed reading
  • Browning. Ordinary Men .
    Listed reading
  • Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich . (Höss)
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 22 · TOPICS: Meeting with Instructor: Review of “Der Brand” (Strategic Bombing) · READINGS: Read Primo Levi. Survival in Auschwitz .
    Reading assignment
  • Allen. The Nazi Seizure of Power . Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich .
    Listed reading
  • Film: Germany Year Zero . (1947, 78 minutes)
    Listed reading
  • or Somewhere in Berlin (Irgendwo in Berlin) (1946, DEFA), 79 minutes.
    Listed reading
Sources